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title: Then he heaped more fuel upon his fire and blew his bellows till the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he heaped more fuel upon his fire and blew his bellows till the flames leaped up to the roof of his smithy. Who acts: Smith. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 61

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Then he heaped more fuel upon his fire and blew his bellows till the flames leaped up to the roof of his smithy.

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**Who acts:** Smith · **What happens:** heap, blow, leap up, fire, bellow · **To what, where:** more fuel, fire, bellows, flames, roof

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smith), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:20:61
# text = Then he heaped more fuel upon his fire and blew his bellows till the flames leaped up to the roof of his smithy.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heaped	heap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bellows	bellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	till	till	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heap** | past | Smith | more fuel |  | Smith's fire | then |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme upon fire=Destination |
| 2 | **blow** | past | Smith *not said here* | Smith's bellows |  |  | till the flames |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bellow=Patient |
| 3 | **leap up** | participle |  | the flames *not said here* |  | the roof of Smith's smithy |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to roof=Destination |
| 4 | **fire** |  | Smith |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **bellow** |  | Smith |  |  |  |  |  | nom bellow «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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